PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Zafar, Azra
TI  - Diabetic patients are at a higher risk of lacunar infarction and dyslipidemia: results of a comparative pilot study from King Fahad Hospital of the University, Saudi Arabia
AID  - 10.17712/nsj.2017.1.20160302
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - Neurosciences Journal
PG  - 20--24
VI  - 22
IP  - 1
4099  - http://nsj.org.sa/content/22/1/20.short
4100  - http://nsj.org.sa/content/22/1/20.full
SO  - Neurosciences (Riyadh)2017 Jan 01; 22
AB  - Objective: To describe the various risk factors and identify the characteristics of ischemic stroke in diabetic patients.Method: A retrospective study carried out at King Fahd Hospital of the University in Al-Khobar, kingdom of Saudi Arabia from February 2010 to December 2015. Statistical analysis was performed by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 22.0, SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA).Results: One hundred and twenty-seven diabetic patients with ischemic stroke were compared with 127 non-diabetics. Mean age was 61±13.6 (mean±SD) years for diabetics and 60±16.6 years for non-diabetics. There were 68.5% male in the diabetic group and 62.2% in the non-diabetic group. Small vessel occlusion was the most common subtype (41.7%) in diabetics and stroke of undetermined etiology (32%) in non-diabetics. Dyslipidemia was significantly more prevalent in diabetics as compared with non-diabetics.Conclusion: Our study found significant differences in characteristics of ischemic stroke in diabetics compared with non-diabetics with dyslipidemia, microangiopathy, and lacunar infarction being more frequent. Further epidemiological studies are required to understand the characteristics of strokes in diabetics.